about to galvanise my 110 firewall - anyone else done it?

**one_iota** · 14th April 2006, 09:51 AM

This guy galvanised his SIII 109 bulkhead with only a little warping:

http://www.landrovernet.com/forum/showthre...ead.php't=23188

**mark2** · 28th April 2006, 07:07 PM

Just an update,

I've had the firewall blasted and sprayed in the organic zinc coating. This cost me $100. New footwells, drilling out the county vent plates, welding up all the spot weld drill holes and replacing the top corners cost me $340 to have professionally done. It now has a couple of coats of olive drab and has been pumped full of fishoil, turned upside down and re-fishoiled. I have before and after photos if someone can post them for me.

**one_iota** · 28th April 2006, 08:03 PM

Originally posted by mark2

I have before and after photos if someone can post them for me.

You can email me ( eno_atoi@yahoo.com.au ) and I can organise this

**Tikirocker** · 28th April 2006, 08:16 PM

Originally posted by mark2
Just an update,

I've had the firewall blasted and sprayed in the organic zinc coating. This cost me $100.

Very cool ... who does the organic zinc spraying for you? do these guys who did it for you have a franchise business in Sydney or are they a one off? I need to get this done myself but not sure where and who might do it.

Simon.

**mark2** · 28th April 2006, 08:50 PM

I had it done in Gympie. Most sandblasting mobs are set up for this sort of thing, the coating has to go on within a few hours of being blasted or it will rust again. This coating is used on a lot of structural steelwork like bridges etc.

**LRHybrid100** · 28th April 2006, 10:12 PM

the sandblasters in Brookvale, NSW does the organic gal spray.

HTH

LRH

**Tikirocker** · 28th April 2006, 10:22 PM

Mark,

I used to deliver seafood up at Gympie when I was living in the Glasshouse Mtns ... are the streets still collapsing from the underground mines?

Thanks mate I'll get onto it ... there's a good Land Rover spares place in Gympie alsi if my memory serves where I've bought a few things in the past.

LHRybrid100 -

I grew up in the Brooky area mate, would you be able to provide an addy for the Sandblaster your talking about; I'd like to get a quote?

Thanks, Simon.

Hellspawn · 29th April 2006, 08:42 AM

Originally posted by Tikirocker

I grew up in the Brooky area mate, would you be able to provide an addy for the Sandblaster your talking about; I'd like to get a quote?

Thanks, Simon.

Before I went back to Ag. Industry, used to work on $220/hr when the compressor was running for blasting and $65/hr for painting. Thinners was not good for the body.

Most charge $170/hr blasting but normally have smaller compressors so take longer than the one we had.

Firewall would take me ½hr to blast if we still had the gear, so allow up to an hour. An hour to paint.

Just on painting. If you paint the firewall with an epoxy (Joton 605), paint it twice while it's still wet as you will always miss bits first time. If you use a urethane hard coat (Joton Hard Top AS) over that should last a long time. Joton is good stuff but dear ($20/L), of better quality than dulux which is why we used it.

**one_iota** · 29th April 2006, 10:32 AM

Mark's photos:

Firewall before:

Firewall after:

**LRHybrid100** · 29th April 2006, 06:45 PM

Originally posted by Tikirocker
LHRybrid100 -

I grew up in the Brooky area mate, would you be able to provide an addy for the Sandblaster your talking about; I'd like to get a quote?

Thanks, Simon.

Bugger if only I had read this this morning, its around the Winbourne Ave area if thats of any help.

LRH

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